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Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Connie Roberts signs a copy of “Little Witness.” PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT ”God knows, there’s enough Irish mi...

Springfield’s Jeanne Ahern is joining the ICC board By Irish Echo Staff letters@irishecho.com Irish culture in western New England is getting a boo...

After headlining festivals in the Midwest next month, the High Kings will travel East. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com When I boarded the t...

Film Review / By Michael Gray Barry Ward and Simone Kirby in a scene from “Jimmy’s Hall.” SONY PICTURES CLASSICS Did you hear the one about the Iri...

Tulip Street By John Kearns An occasional carhorn sent a fading note of complaint down the narrow brick walls of Tulip Street. Potholes made the ca...

Salon Diary / by Jeanne D’Brant and John Kearns Donie Carroll. PHOTO: KEVIN MCPARTLAND The IAWA July Salon at Bar Thalia had a solid turnout who se...

Dubliner Gavin Glass’s latest CD “Sunday Songs” has received glowing reviews in Ireland. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com By now, the popula...

Larry Kirwan. By Irish Echo Staff Larry Kirwan has never been busier, it seems, since his band Black 47 called it a day last fall after 25 years. O...

Peter Harding. By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com “When my father came to America, he had a lot to learn,” said Connor Harding in a eulogy...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Nuala O’Connor. PHOTO: EMILIA KRYSZTOFIAK “Secrets will always out,” the Dublin novelist Dermot Bolger wrot...

When did the poets eat a peacock? Seven poets gathered to eat a peacock over a century ago, Sunday, Jan. 18, 1914, at 12:30 p.m. And why would they...

Seamus Heaney was an original member of the Belfast Group organized at Queen’s University from 1963. He is pictured near his home in Dublin in 1995...